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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Mobile, AL

July 8, 1995Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 082205 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC003-097-FLC033-082300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
504 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...BALDWIN COUNTY...MOBILE COUNTY
 
 
 
 
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY
 
 
 
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS RACING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH ACROSS
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THIS
LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE PRESSING SOUTH INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
BALDWIN/MOBILE COUNTIES AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA BEFORE 615 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF
PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEA<VY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:25 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
425 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995

FOLLOWING IS SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 415 PM...

                                         WIND DAMAGE
305 PM      WILCOX                  AL   A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.

316 PM      CHOCTAW                 AL    WIND DAMAGE
                                          THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN ON POWER
                                          LINES IN GILBERTOWN.

                                          WIND DAMAGE
330 PM      CLARKE                  AL    THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN COUNTYWIDE

Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:32 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
425 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995

FOLLOWING IS SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 415 PM...

                                         WIND DAMAGE
305 PM      WILCOX                  AL   A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.

316 PM      CHOCTAW                 AL    WIND DAMAGE
                                          THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN ON POWER
                                          LINES IN GILBERTOWN.

                                          WIND DAMAGE
330 PM      CLARKE                  AL    THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN COUNTYWIDE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	28 min
Jul 8, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dallas	29 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Autauga, Lowndes	50 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	35 min
Jul 8, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	67 min
Jul 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	41 min
Jul 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	56 min
Jul 8, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	69 min
Jul 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	60 min
Jul 8, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	42 min
Jul 8, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	53 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.